To Kill A Mockingbird Jem Change Analysis

Change: From Brave to Confusing

Change is the start of everything. Once something or someone changes it is the beginning of a new story of events. Jem experiences many changes throughout To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. For example he starts as a brave kid, but and event changes his life forever. This is where Jem turns into a very confusing person.

In the exposition of To Kill A Mockingbird Jem is shown as being brave. The reason Jem is described as being brave because he is willing to do things other people wouldn’t normally want to do. Jem went to the Radley’s house because of a dare that someone told him to do. The Radley’s are the scariest family in Maycomb so most people would back away from the dare. “Jem threw open the gate and sped to the side of the (Radley’s) house, slapped it

Jem has been doing a good job of protecting Jem from Mr. Ewell and other dangers but when they were chatting Jem really showed how much he cared about Scout’s feelings. After Mr. Ewell kept bragging about winning the trial against Tom Robinson. “Jem told me to not be afraid, Mr. Ewell was more hot gas than anything” (Lee 241). Scout was told by Jem to basically not fear Mr. Ewell. Even though Mr. Ewell told Atticus that he would get Atticus. Jem seemed pretty nice to start but something has changed within him. Jem told Scout not to fear Mr. Ewell but there is something else that Jem told Scout. “Jem also told me that if I breathed a word to Atticus, if in any way let Atticus know I knew, Jem would personally never speak to me again” (Lee 241). Jem told Scout not to tell Atticus that she knew about what Mr. Ewell said about there being one down and about two more to go.. Jem was very confusing at this time because he went from being kind to Scout and telling her not to fear. Then he basically turned to the dark side and said if Scout knew about what Mr. Ewell said, Jem would never speak to Scout